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Quote of the Day

Spirituality

“The prophet Daniel once saw an angel, and he was so terror-struck at his appearance, that he fell to the ground like one dead. If such an effect was produced on him by the sight of a single angel, whose errand was one of comfort and consolation, what will become of us, when so many hundreds of thousands of heavenly princes draw nigh to us [on Judgment Day] with wrathful countenances? St. Ephrem, speaking of this says: ‘The angels will stand there with a menacing demeanor, their eyes flashing with the sacred fire of just indignation, roused by the iniquities of mankind.’” (Fr. Martin von Cochem, The Four Last Things, p. 66.)

Doctrine

Pope Pelagius II, epistle (1) Quod ad dilectionem, 585: “If anyone, however, either suggests or believes or presumes to teach contrary to this faith, let him know that he is condemned and also anathematized according to the opinion of the same Fathers… Consider therefore the fact that whoever has not been in the peace and unity of the Church, cannot have the Lord.”

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